A collection of 17C buildings including a remarkable library (also 17C) and a refectory decorated with woodwork and paintings by Jean Hélart depicting the lives of Saint Ignatius Loyola...
In 1964, René Lalou, the head of a champagne House, and Léonard Foujita (1886-1968), a Japanese painter belonging to the “Ecole de Paris” school of art, decided to build a chapel to mark the mystical inspiration Foujita had experienced at the Saint Remi basilica and which had led to his baptism in Reims cathedral...
The cryptoporticus is a Gallo-Roman construction that probably dates from the 3C AD. It is actually a semi-underground gallery.
Built below the ancient forum, which was the centre of any Roman town, it was originally rectangular in shape...
Created in 1982 in line with the other FRACs set up in every region of France, the purpose of FRAC Champagne-Ardenne is to put together and make public a collection of contemporary works of art, programme and put on temporary modern art exhibitions, produce publications, organise operations to heighten awareness and provide training for different types of public...
Founded in 1794 with works of art appropriated at the time of the French Revolution from the property of émigrés and religious establishments, the fine art museum collection was housed in the city hall (Hôtel de Ville). When the city authorities acquired the abandoned seminary of the former Abbey of Saint Denis...
The city's historical and archaeological museum is housed in the former Benedictine royal abbey, itself a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Medieval chapter house. 18C monumental staircase, façade, cloisters.
Its collections recount the history of the abbey...
This very fine 13C town house, embellished with Renaissance additions in the 16C, became the property of local patron of the arts Hugues Krafft in 1910. He spent a large part of his fortune on its restoration after damage sustained during WWI...
Fort de la Pompelle is 5 km from Reims on the RN 44 road to Châlons-en-Champagne.
Listed as an historic monument, it played an important role in the 1914-1918 war. It was built between 1880 and 1883 as part of Reims' defences on the designs of General Séré de Rivière after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). It was the only fort to remain in the hands of the allied forces during WWI and protected city of Reims...
On Monday, 7 May 1945 at 2.41am, in a room at what was Reims Technical College, where General Eisenhower had set up his supreme headquarters, the Allied Forces brought an end to a war that had waged for more than five years, by obtaining the capitulation of the Third Reich's army...
Rated fifth among French automobile museums for the size of its collections, Reims-Champagne Automobile Museum is run by a group of collectors, who own some of the 200 vehicles on display, the presentation of which is regularly revised...
Formerly the archbishop's palace, the Palais du Tau was reconstructed by Robert de Cotte for Monseigneur Letellier during the reign of Louis XIV. It still has a 13C palatine chapel and the great Gothic Salle du Tau where the coronation banquet used to be held...
Reims' Planetarium is unique in the region. Open seven days a week in the grand setting of the gardens of the former Jesuit College, it puts on over 1,200 showings a year and is visited by nearly 27,000 people. It is a permanent source of astronomical information...
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